[lbo-talk] The Grapes of Wrath revisited

[John E. Norem]

  Same road, same grim story, same sense of optimism

Chris McGreal journeys along Route 66 – following in the footsteps of 
the Joads, the central characters in John Steinbeck's the Grapes of 
Wrath who fled the Oklahoma dustbowl for California – to see whether the 
tragedy and despair witnessed in the Great Depression is a 
long-forgotten nightmare or a present-day reality still haunting Barack 
Obama's America

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/28/us-grapes-wrath-route-66